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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not rational—when considering whether to go to...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts a new state–of–the–art View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of all time” demonstrated an early penchant for competition. A peripatetic Army brat, Porter was an all-state football and baseball player in New Jersey before majoring in aerospace engineering at Princeton (where he finished first in his...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
they need to worry about attracting and retaining the best talent,” Toffel says. “Or why CEOs of companies that largely sell to Indiana residents, like the Colts football team and Pacers basketball team, might oppose the law to ensure all...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
think that you know, in my life, you know, I was a math nerd and a football player. Kind of ... DM: [laughs] JI: ... okay? I was a math nerd ... DM: It's a rare breed. JI: ... a very rare breed [laughing]. But I loved problem-solving. But...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
about the case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 706-413 Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A) What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
pages or as long as 100, was passed out earlier in the week but serious WAC work didn’t begin until Friday evening and then continued through Saturday — no Saturday football games! Typing began late Saturday afternoon and, unlike today,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007, Marc was still confined to a wheelchair, but the Miami project had developed into the world's largest spinal cord injury...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
into being. I write about in the book, my freshman year at Yale, the freshman football players. We staged a coup against the upperclassmen because the team really sucked, and the upperclassmen were just really not good at their jobs, and...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
general topic of space exploration. Do you have any deeper connections to the topic? A: Well, like many little boys, I always wanted to be an astronaut (on the days when I didn't want to be a football player). But I did take my childhood...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many years. Over time, more and more...
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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
pagri (turban) was part of the school uniform. On special occasions, we wore the sherwani. The ancient equestrian game of neza bazi (tent pegging) native to the region was played alongside acquired sports of cricket, football and squash....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
own something, can’t be an asset. If it’s not an asset, you can’t invest in it. So employees, I’m sorry, can’t be assets. You can’t invest in your employees, because they’re not owned by you. Even people under contract can’t be assets. Even a View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
sister live like boxcar children on her disability checks. When Casey, following in the footsteps of his father, is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209001 The New York Jets—A West Side Story Harvard Business School Case 207-027 In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
who tackled me in football to break my leg, he was the one on my team who was behind me who threw a log and hit me from behind. JH: Oh jeez. BW: And it changed my personality for the latter years of high school. So I became sort of, I...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out,...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
graduating from the University of British Columbia as a professional football player in Canada.) No wonder I loved the man and would do anything for him!” By the way, the ship’s clock and barometer are now proudly above my desk at Harvard...
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